Yiran Chen

Professor, Duke University

Joined

December 2017

Names

Yiran Chen

Emails

****@duke.edu (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Professor

Duke University (duke.edu)

2019 – Present

Associate Professor

Duke University (duke.edu)

2017 – 2019

Associate Professor

University of Pittsburgh (pitt.edu)

2014 – 2016

Assistant Professor

University of Pittsburgh (pitt.edu)

2010 – 2014

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Kaushik Roy

2021 – 2025

Expertise

Computer Systems Research (CSR

Present

Publications

Skilled AI Agents for Embedded and IoT Systems Development
Yiming Li, Yuhan Cheng, Mingchen Ma, Yihang Zou, Ningyuan Yang, Wei Cheng, Hai Helen Li, Yiran Chen, Tingjun Chen
- AgentSkills 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Voice Evaluation of Reasoning Ability: Diagnosing the Modality-Induced Performance Gap
Yueqian Lin, Zhengmian Hu, Qinsi Wang, Yudong Liu, Hengfan Zhang, Jayakumar Subramanian, Nikos Vlassis, Hai Helen Li, Yiran Chen
- ICLR 2026 Workshop ICBINB
- Readers: Everyone
PolyAudio: Advancing Multi-Audio Analysis & Reasoning in Large Audio Language Models
Sonal Kumar, Sreyan Ghosh, Yueqian Lin, Yiran Chen, Ramani Duraiswami, Dinesh Manocha
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
IncVGGT: Incremental VGGT for Memory-Bounded Long-Range 3D Reconstruction
Keyu Fang, Changchun Zhou, Yuzhe Fu, Hai Helen Li, Yiran Chen
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
DPad: Efficient Diffusion Language Models with Suffix Dropout
Xinhua Chen, Sitao Huang, Cong Guo, Chiyue Wei, Yintao He, Jianyi Zhang, Hai Helen Li, Yiran Chen
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Accelerating Denoising Generative Models is as Easy as Predicting Second-Order Difference
Yixiao Wang, Ting Jiang, Zishan Shao, Hancheng Ye, Jingwei Sun, Mingyuan Ma, Qinsi Wang, Jianyi Zhang, Yiran Chen, Hai Helen Li
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Mitigating Non-IID Drift in Zeroth-Order Federated LLM Fine-Tuning with Transferable Sparsity
Yide Ran, Wentao Guo, Jingwei Sun, Yanzhou Pan, Xiaodong Yu, Hao Wang, Jianwen Xie, Yiran Chen, Denghui Zhang, Zhaozhuo Xu
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Vision-Zero: Scalable VLM Self-Evolution via Multi-Agent Self-Play
Qinsi Wang, Bo Liu, Tianyi Zhou, Jing Shi, Yueqian Lin, Yiran Chen, Hai Helen Li, Kun Wan, Wentian Zhao
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
SELECT: Search-Enhanced Language Models for Analog Circuit Topology Generation
Guanglei Zhou, Chen-Chia Chang, Yikang Shen, Jonathan Ku, Isaac Jacobson, Jingyu Pan, Yiran Chen, Xin Zhang
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Voice Evaluation of Reasoning Ability: Diagnosing the Modality-Induced Performance Gap
Yueqian Lin, Zhengmian Hu, Qinsi Wang, Yudong Liu, Hengfan Zhang, Jayakumar Subramanian, Nikos Vlassis, Hai Helen Li, Yiran Chen
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone

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